Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

- Brian Tracy

One must be frank to be relevant.

- Corazon Aquino

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

- Christopher Morley

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

- Charles R. Swindoll

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

- Charles Kuralt

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

- Charles Dickens

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

- Charles Baudelaire

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

- Carol Burnett

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

- Calvin Coolidge

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

- Buddha

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

- Blaise Pascal

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

- Bill Gates

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

- Bertolt Brecht

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

- Baltasar Gracian

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

- Armistead Maupin

Languages are true analytical methods.

- Antoine Lavoisier

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

- Anton Chekhov

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

- Ansel Adams